IHRC Awards 2022
Celebrating Excellence by Honouring Inspirational Leadership

Individual Award Categories

Inspirational Leader of the Year

This award recognises the game-changing HR directors of the future. It is open to any HR professional below HR director level and celebrates the rising stars who have already made a big impact on their organisations.

HR Business Partner of the Year

This award recognises talented HR business partners, HR managers or other senior HR professionals that are making a difference in their organisation. Entries should describe the contribution made to their team and to the organisation as a whole.

HR’s Rising Star of the Year

The Rising Star Award recognizes an individual who has demonstrated early leadership qualities in human resources through personal performance and commitment to professional, volunteer, and educational opportunities. Rising stars are the future of the profession.

Organization Award Categories

Outstanding Talent Management Strategy

Entrants should give details of how their organisation defines and spots talent, where responsibility for managing talent sits, how they deliver appropriate development opportunities and how they monitor and measure the success of implementation and outcome.

Best Women Development & Leadership Programme

The recipients of this award are committed to supporting, engaging and advancing women leaders at their organizations and in their communities.

Best Employee Support Strategy

Entrants should give details of how their organisation have developed a well-thought-out strategy linking employee support to the heart of the business. The strategy should be holistic, explaining how all aspects of the employee experience – including for example recognition, values, employee voice, culture and communications - have been considered to improve engagement with the organisation and what it seeks to achieve.

Application Form
Entry by Invitation only
Individual Award Categories          Organization Award Categories
Organizational Description
***If the applicant is an independent self-accounting subsidiary or a unit of a larger company, a brief description should be given of the organizational relationship to the ‘parent’ organization. Briefly describe how the applicant’s products and services relate to those of the parent and/or other units of the parent organization.
IHRC 2022 – AWARDS - SELF APPRAISAL REPORT
Please provide a Self-Appraisal Report using the criteria below to explain and justify your eligibility for the award applied for. Kindly ensure that the responses are limited to the number of words specified against each criterion.
A. Conceptualization (20 points)
Please describe how the strategy/plan/program/initiative to provide/enhance the product/service, was conceptualized. Who were the stakeholders for your product/service? What prompted this strategy/plan/program/initiative to be undertaken? What was unique and/or original about this strategy/plan/program/initiative? (300 words )




B. Standards & Benchmarking (10 points)
Please describe if you adhered to any local or global standards as a benchmark while formulating your strategy/plan/program/initiative. What prompted you to adopt this benchmark/standard? (200 words )




C. Managing the Implementation (30 points)
Please describe in detail how your strategy/plan/program/initiative was implemented and who were the key stakeholders involved. What unique methods did you adopt or use in your implementation? How did you manage the implementation? How did you measure the satisfaction of the stakeholders before and after the implementation? (500 words )




D. Implementation Evidence (30 points)
Please provide all available data to demonstrate how you were able to meet or exceed the stakeholders’ expectations. What were the tangible results of your strategy/plan/program/initiative on the stakeholder’s happiness and business results? You can share data analysis, any reviews, recommendations and citations received from verifiable parties and/or from reputed third-party consultants, websites and aggregators or any recognition, awards and certifications received from reputed organisations to support your response (500 words )




E. Sustainability (10 points)
Please describe how the strategy/plan/program/initiative you implemented can continue serving the needs of your stakeholders in the future too. What impact did it create on them (200 words )







Note1: There are no specific eligibility criteria or restrictions for applying for these Awards. However, all applicants are expected to reasonably demonstrate, perceptible achievement and/or contribution in the areas applied for. Objective proof and clear evidence of contribution and achievement will substantially improve the chances of winning the awards.
Note2: All submissions will be held in absolute confidence and will not be divulged or shared with any third party except with your prior consent.
AWARD SCHEME
The International Human Resource Management Awards, established in 2022, are currently the global standard for HR excellence. It is created to recognize the finest professionals and organizations in human resource management.

The International Human Resource Management Awards is pleased to announce the call for entries. Initiated by the Award Scheme for HR Excellence, it aims to promote worldwide corporate HR excellence efforts in both developed and developing countries.
The Award
International Human Resource Management Awards, named after Blue Ocean Training Academy, is awarded annually. Each winner receives a Trophy together with a Certificate. The award winners may use the IHRC Awards Logo with year on their printed and promotional materials. Selected organizations may be awarded a Commendation Certificate by the Jury.

Why This Award?
The International Human Resource Management Awards were created to encourage and assist companies in quickly improving HR processes. It is a strong self-assessment tool and a method to create corporate governance brand equity. The award preparation inspires and aligns the whole workforce and management roles. As a result of defining and self-evaluating its activities, the organisation will enhance its performance in this area. Independent audits review self-assessment applications is most important part of assessment
Eligible Organizations
The ‘International Human Resource Management Awards' are open to all sectors, industries, and government companies worldwide. The organization's operations must be self-sufficient, with clearly defined roles, authority, budgets, and outcomes.
Rules & Regulations
  • The Award Jury's decision is final and no communication or appeal will be entertained.
  • If the necessary criteria is not reached, the Award Secretariat retains the right to declare multiple winners and/or withhold awards.
  • Awards may be awarded for each sub-sector, even if only one application is received for each category (as decided by the Jury).
  • They may be asked to give a short presentation to the Jury, or one of the judges may be asked to check or verify the facts on site. applicant assumes all travel and lodging costs, if any
  • We cannot be held responsible for any damage caused by the revelation of application information to Assessors or Jury members, even if all reasonable measures are taken to keep it confidential.
  • The Award Secretariat cannot guarantee the return of supporting papers.
  • The Award Secretariat may change the Award Scheme at any time without notification.
Non-Disclosure & Confidentiality
  • Names of applicants, comments, and score information are private and kept secret. Only those directly engaged in the evaluation and administrative procedures have access to this data.
  • The International Human Resource Management Awards Secretariat will take all reasonable steps to keep all applications and information confidential. However, the International Human Resource Management Awards Secretariat cannot be held responsible for any violation of confidentiality by the applicants or any other party.
  • The International Human Resource Management Awards Secretariat retains the right to publicise salient information of the Award Winners' Innovative methods/processes/Improvement initiatives/Schemes for the aim of knowledge exchange and raising industry standards.
Disclaimer: Launched in 2014, IPSC Global Awards is an initiative to recognize and honour the most remarkable and inspirational leadership strategies in procurement and supply chain-related sectors implemented by organizations/executives to leverage the industries. We are proud to be an authentic platform that celebrates excellence and meritorious efforts, regardless of the company size. The results are an outcome of a strict assessment process by a panel of industry experts from our Advisory Board council, who select the finalists and winners purely based on qualitative and quantitative performance indicators.